The Compleat ^Angler 



husk or case, not unlike the bristles of a hedgehog ; these three 

 cadises are commonly taken in the beginning of summer, and are 

 good indeed to take any kind of fish, with float or otherwise. I might 

 tell you of many more, which as these do early, so those have their 

 time also of turning to be flies later in summer ; but I might lose 

 myself and tire you by such a discourse : I shall therefore but remem- 

 ber you, that to know these, and their several kinds, and to what 

 flies every particular cadis turns, and then how to use them, first as 

 they be cadis, and after as they be flies, is an art, and an art that 

 every one that professes to be an angler has not leisure to search 

 after, and, if he had, is not capable of learning. 



I will tell you, scholar, several countries have several kinds of 

 cadises, that indeed differ as much as dogs do ; that is to say, as much 

 as a very cur and a greyhound do. These be usually bred in the 

 very little rills, or ditches, that run into bigger rivers : and I think, 

 a more proper bait for those very rivers than any other. I know not 

 how or of what, this cadis receives life, or what coloured fly it turns 

 to ; but doubtless they are the death of many trouts ; and this is one 

 killing way : 



Take one (or more if need be) of these large yellow cadis : pull 

 off his head, and with it pull out his black gut : put the body (as 

 little bruised as is possible) on a very little hook, armed on with a 

 red hair (which will show like the cadis head) and a very little thin 

 lead, so put upon the shank of the hook that it may sink presently : 

 throw this bait, thus ordered (which will look very yellow) into any 

 great still hole where a trout is, and he will presently venture his life 

 for it, 'tis not to be doubted, if you be not espied ; and that the bait 

 first touch the water before the line. And this will do best in the 

 deepest, stillest water. 



Next let me tell you, I have been much pleased to walk quietly 

 by a brook with a little stick in my hand, with which I might easily 

 take these, and consider the curiosity of their composure ; and if you 

 shall ever like to do so, then note, that your stick must be a little 

 hazel or willow, cleft, or have a nick at one end of it ; by which 

 means you may with ease take many of them in that nick out of the 

 water, before you have any occasion to use them. These, my honest 



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